For senior Justin Chiles, one-hundredth of a second was the difference between being an EISL champion or being just another runner-up.
After two convincing wins over Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend, the men's basketball team (15-12 overall, 6-7 Ivy League) will be playing tonight to avoid the first losing Ivy League season in Princeton history.After squandering an 18-point lead in the final eight minutes of their first match-up with the Ivy League-champion Penn Quakers (19-8, 12-1) this season ? a game they went on to lose, 70-62, in overtime ? the Tigers will have a chance tonight to send their historically hated rivals off into the NCAA Tournament on a low note.And after pouring in a combined 32 points against the Big Green and the Crimson, senior guard Will Venable will need just one point tonight to become the 26th player in University history to reach the 1,000-point mark for his superb Princeton career.In other words, though Ivy League schedule-makers may have originally envisioned that tonight's game at Jadwin Gym between Princeton and Penn would be a battle for the conference title and a post-season berth, enough is still at stake to make Princeton's final game of the season well worth watching.The opportunity to see Venable, senior center Judson Wallace and their fellow classmates play in the final game of their collegiate careers will be among the most compelling reasons to watch."It'll be a good way to go out having the opportunity to play Penn in the final game," Venable said.
The season opener for the women's lacrosse team was a tale of two halves. Luckily for Princeton (1-0), the positives of the second half far outweighed its undisciplined play in the first half.
Good teams win all the games they should, but great teams win ones they should not. This saying held true all season for the women's hockey team, which finished its season Saturday after getting swept by Yale in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League playoff quarterfinals.Throughout the season, Princeton easily dispatched teams that were ranked lower but struggled for ties and close losses with teams that were ranked higher.
On a night the men's basketball team honored its storied past, this year's team moved one step closer to avoiding making the wrong kind of history, and senior guard Will Venable came oh-so-close to making a little history of his own.With the majority of the 1964-65 Tigers in attendance to mark the 40th anniversary of their run to the Final Four, Venable took over down the stretch, scoring seven of his 19 points in the game's final two minutes to power Princeton (15-12 overall, 6-7 Ivy League) past Dartmouth (10-17, 7-7), 65-54, on Saturday night in Jadwin Gym.At game's end, Venable stood at 999 points for his career, one point short of becoming the 26th Tiger to reach 1,000 points with just one regular season game left to play in his career.The win also kept alive Princeton's hope of finishing the Ivy League season with a .500 record.
Midway through the men's basketball game Saturday night, members of the 1964-65 Princeton team ? which reached the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, finishing third in the nation ? were honored.
With four minutes, 16 seconds remaining in the men's basketball team's 66-44 shellacking of Harvard on Friday night, senior forward Andre Logan pushed the ball up the court on a fast break, dribbled behind his back to lose his lone defender and coolly laid the ball in off the glass.When he did, the dwindling number of fans in the student cheering section resurrected a chant that has spent most of the season collecting cobwebs: "Andre!
Junior forward Dustin Sproat, playing in his final game as a Tiger, put forth an impressive farewell effort on Saturday night.
Three-peats aren't unheard of in Princeton sports history. Princeton's men's lacrosse team did it in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
On a bitterly cold season-opening day, before a record-breaking crowd at Class of 1952 Stadium, men's lacrosse (0-1 overall) came out slow on both defense and offense and was never able to recover against No.
Last season did not end the way the women's lacrosse team had hoped ? with another national championship.
When the first pitch of the baseball team's season is thrown out Saturday at noon in Richmond, Va., the Tigers will be standing on a field located just a little over 50 miles away from where their season ended last June.But the Orange and Black lineup will be very different from the one that the University of Virginia knocked out of the NCAA Tournament last year.Gone are four of Princeton's most valuable players, all taken in last June's major league draft ? the senior co-captains, catcher Tim Lahey and second baseman Steve Young, and the junior phenoms, pitcher Ross Ohlendorf and center fielder B.J.
Whats the goalie's job?"Stop the ball," Sarah Kolodner says without hesitating.But the senior goaltender, returning for her fourth year of guarding the women's lacrosse team's net, understands her task this season is much greater than that.
Kicking off a schedule that will bring it face-to-face with the most talented teams in the country, men's lacrosse faces perennial rival No.
As the injury-riddled women's lacrosse team hobbles into its season-opener against Johns Hopkins, senior attack Lindsey Biles eases into her role as an older and wiser co-captain.Honored as an All-American last year, Biles has long been a crucial part of Princeton's offense.
After climbing up a spot to 10th in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League last weekend, the men's hockey team is poised to face the seventh seed St.
When the men's basketball team (13-12 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) visited Dartmouth and Harvard on the first weekend in February, it had been four years since it suffered a loss to either opponent.Things have most certainly changed.
Women's basketball will begin a tough road trip this weekend against Harvard (17-7 overall, 9-2 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (14-9, 10-1) to finish its season.
Restraining line. Crease. Box. 2-3-1. 1-4-1. Clear. Ride. Slides. Pole. Crosscheck. Faceoff. Wings.Know what any of those mean?
Twice this season, the women's hockey team has scored first on Yale and put itself in the position to claim a victory.
